Postings For November 2012

I have always gotten great pleasure out of helping and doing for others. It’s just who I am. When I was growing up, my friends knew they could count on me. When I was in college, it went beyond my friends to the community - I volunteered on a crisis hotline. In graduate school and through the early part of my professi...
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I love Paris. Who doesn't? And I love to share the places I find myself going back to again and again. Not surprisingly, all involve fabulous food!
Join Parisians and tourists alike, any day but Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath, for a stroll in the Marais. This lively, hip area is also a historic Jewish neighborhood. I like to shop at the small bo...
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While doing our research for hotels for Tauck’s Switzerland tour, late one afternoon I found myself sitting on a bar stool, enjoying a draft beer in a perfectly frosted stein, in the very same bar in the Schweizerhof Hotel Lucerne that hosted not only Mark Twain and Leo Tolstoy, but other notable travellers such as Roger Moore, Richard Wa...
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When “Hurricane Sandy” roared up the Atlantic coast on October 29th, I was in Rome with my husband Peter hosting 180 travellers on our 2012 Roman Holiday Event. The news of impending disaster came as we were enjoying six action-packed days of Renaissance palaces, private operas, newly opened archaeological discoveries, and a private...
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I had the pleasure of interviewing Tauck traveller, Mrs. Ginny Morin, regarding the recent trip that she and her husband, Jim, shared with their entire family, in honour of 50 years of marriage – Mary-Frances Walsh
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